Just to have the solution in the archive:
Earlier this month I wrote about Linux reading beyond
the end of the disk partition:
QUOTE
root l440gx /]# dd bs=10k skip=1200 of=/dev/null
if=/dev/hdg1
dd: reading `/dev/hdg1': Input/output error
5371+1 records in
5371+1 records out
There were error
Hello to the List Members!
I was searching the Internet (and this list) for a
while, and found many people with similar symptoms. I
could find no satisfactory solutions to their
problems, though. So, I decided to ask here.
I've got a RedHat 9.0 SMP system (L440GX motherboard,
2x650 Pentium III,